If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Work alone is noble.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

There is spontaneity to my work.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.